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NY Jewish Culture Examiner: David Kraemer on the ultra-Orthodox kashrut hysteria of the 1980s In 1986 three ultra-Orthodax women in Boro Park, Brooklyn began spying on the neighborhood’s kosher butchers. Their surveillance occurred neither on the premises of the butcher shops nor during work hours; they did not take issue with how the butchers performed […]

In a public discussion yesterday evening at Congregation Beth Elohim, a Reformsynagogue in Park Slope, former World Jewish Congress president Edgar M. Bronfman called contemporary Judaism‘s denominations outdated, and predicted that when and if the Modern Orthodox movement becomes gender egalitarian the denominational movements that currently divide non-ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Modern Orthodox) […]

I recall the first time I asked my parents about death. I was a precoscious five or six year old, and their answer was direct: consciousness stops, the body becomes an inanimate object like a rock and begins to disintegrate, and all that remains are the memories living people have of us. But the […]

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